“…One of the arguments for using such a visual method is that we live in an increasingly 'ocularcentric' culture (Mitchell, 2011), where images form a vital part of our everyday worlds and influence both how we see ourselves and how others see us (Mannay et al, 2018). Furthermore, arts-based research offers an alternative way of representing the subtleties of experience, profound feelings and understandings (Roberts and Woods, 2018) in creative, non-linear ways (for example, Loads, 2009;Roberts and Woods, 2018). The teachers in this study are 'only too familiar with speaking and writing' (Burge et al, 2016: 735), and so an unfamiliar arts-based method of representation can offer the opportunity to pause for thought, ponder, hesitate and examine assumptions 'instead of repeating familiar viewpoints or quickly coming to settled conclusions' (ibid.…”